GrnNatlFan
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- Joined
- Sep 26, 2002
I have been selling and buying on E-Bay for awhile now and have come across a first. I bought a Linksys wireless router brand new from Best Buy a couple of years back and used it for about two weeks. The wife got "scared" that all of our personal data was going out to hackers (tried to explain to no avail). Anyway, I decided to sell it on E-Bay and listed it. It sold and I shipped it. Now the guy that bought it had 0 feedback on E-Bay and was a member for less than 1 month when he bought it. I get this e-mail from him today:
I tried to install this router today to no avail. After talking to LinkSys Technical Support, we have come to the conclusion that this unit has been “Bricked” and cannot be reset. It is obvious that the unit has been tampered with due to the seal on the bottom being visibly broken. If you have any other WRT54G Ver. 4 or earlier units, I will be happy to exchange ASAP.
I'm kind of suspicious. I never opened this router up and it worked fine for me. Here are my options:
1: Full refund and let him keep the router.
2: Make him send it back and them give him a full refund.
Don't know if he is blowing smoke but I am anticipating negative feedback on this one. What's the opinion here on what to do? Also, does anyone know if my IP address was stored on this router or not? Is there a possible hacking/security problem if this guy knows what he's doing?
I tried to install this router today to no avail. After talking to LinkSys Technical Support, we have come to the conclusion that this unit has been “Bricked” and cannot be reset. It is obvious that the unit has been tampered with due to the seal on the bottom being visibly broken. If you have any other WRT54G Ver. 4 or earlier units, I will be happy to exchange ASAP.
I'm kind of suspicious. I never opened this router up and it worked fine for me. Here are my options:
1: Full refund and let him keep the router.
2: Make him send it back and them give him a full refund.
Don't know if he is blowing smoke but I am anticipating negative feedback on this one. What's the opinion here on what to do? Also, does anyone know if my IP address was stored on this router or not? Is there a possible hacking/security problem if this guy knows what he's doing?